People you should know.

[Daystar Clarion]

Ok, during a conversation with my sister the a topic came up that makes me question a certain thing. One my sister's friends had no idea who Frank Sinatra was, this made me facepalm to the extreme and it made me think.

Do you think there should be some people who everyone should know? Obviously children can be excluded until they reach a certain age, but shouldn't certain people get enough exposure in everyone's daily lives that they are known by pretty much everybody, even if it's just recognising the name and not actually knowing what they were famous for? We have your obvious people like Hitler, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Sinatra and Churchill who everybody should of at least heard of.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Billy Joel...

Humprey Bogart...

Mel Brooks...

 

[Les Awesome]

alfred yankovic

 

[orangebandguy]

Gordon Bennet.

I want to know who he is!

 

[tomtom94]

Well, I must be honest, I'm fairly certain if I took a poll at my school at least a quarter of people would not be able to tell me who Freddy Mercury was.

The entertainment industry changes and the people who were relevant before become less and less relevant with each passing second.
Alas.

Regardless: You should know the names of the four Beatles.

 

[The Boy in the Hat]

The Flying Spaghetti Monster, 'cause it's awesome
At least one of the Greek philosophers,
Alexander the Great, the greatest conquering general
Marcus Tullius Cicero, the Father of Modern Democracy,
Queen Victoria, the United Kingdom's longest reigning monarch
Abraham Lincoln, for having a cool beard, the Emancipation and being so damn awesome,
And of course, Chuck Norris.

 

[Keava]

Regardless: You should know the names of the four Beatles.

Chico, Harpo, Groucho and Zeppo? *rolls eyes*

And with such smooth transition i hereby add The Marx Brothers to the list.

 

[Luftwaffles]

At least 3 actors who played James Bond. Pierce Brosnan does not count.

 

[Ekonk]

Mel Brooks...

And his son, Max Brooks.

 

[Furious Styles]

Alex Chilton

Nick Drake

I don't know, there's got to be others but these are my choices.

 

[Jonluw]

Nah, I don't really think so.

People in my class have been disappointed in me a lot for not knowing who people like Gilbert O'Sullivan and Cat Stevens are. I just think it's silly. There is no viable reason why I should be bothered to find out who those people are and what they have done.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Gordon Bennet.

I want to know who he is!

He's gotta be pretty famous if we use him as an expletive...

 

[JanatUrlich]

Me! Or Antoine Dodson.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

People should honestly be able to remember the names of their senators at Least. I remember when Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with a tumor and when I mentioned this in class, one of the girls turned to me and went "Who?"

 

[technoted]

Hitler, and the millions of people who fought and died in one of the sickets periods of existence.

 

[Zap Rowsdower]

I don't know many of the people already mentioned...